Here are the quotations for this week (30 Sept to 6 October):
1. 'I was going on fowls and boiled corn, but my Tommies wanted their pound
of fresh meat, and their half ounce of this, and their two ounces of t'other
thing, and they used to come to me and badger me for plug-tobacco when we
were four days in jungle. I said: "I can get you Burma tobacco, but I don't
keep a canteen up my sleeve." They couldn't see it. They wanted all the
luxuries of the season, confound 'em.'
2. 'A sais or groom met me on the Simla Mall with this extraordinary note:
'Please give bearer a box of cheroots - Supers, No.1 for preference. They
are freshest at the Club. I'll repay when I reappear; but at present I'm out
of society !'
3. 'It breaks my heart to give them the tobaccos they ask for. On the other
hand, not one man in five thousand has a tobacco-palate. Preference, yes.
Palate, no. Here's your pipe, again. It deserves better treatment than it's
had. There's a procedure, a ritual, in all things.'
The Sources of last week's quotations (Sept 23rd to 29th) were as follows:
1. ('Long before I reached the Gully of the Horsemen...') 'On the City Wall'
in 'Soldiers Three'.
2. ('The clamour might have continued to the dawn...') 'The Man who Was' in
'Life's Handicap'.
3. ('An answer came from the watch-tower...') 'The Lost Legion' in 'Many
Inventions'.
Good wishes to all, John R
